Profile of steampunk maker Jake von Slatt

Today's Wired News has a feature on Jake von Slatt, a steampunk maker whose many projects have been frequently featured here on Boing Boing. Wired has an article and a lovely gallery of von Slatt's creations.

"The Victorian era was really the last era in which a high school graduate was given the complete set of scientific concepts to fully understand the technology of the age," von Slatt says. "Because of this, part of what I wanted to do was to co-opt the term 'steampunk' and imbue it with this DIY component. DIY wasn't part of the definition of steampunk … but I wanted it to be."

Link to article, Link to gallery

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